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On Modern and Traditional

By: Thomas Knauer

There are a lot of people in the quilt world who dislike the term modern quilting. While I often find the term inadequate to describe what is actually going on with a new generation of quilters, there is another word…

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Bridges, December 2017

By: Anne Sullivan

“When designing quilts, I often give myself challenges to work with shapes I’m not comfortable with. I had done some designs working with curves, but I challenged myself to make a block that mixed curved piecing with rectangles or squares.

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Easy Fabric Dyeing: Create Your Own Solids and Tone-on-Tone Fabrics

By: Sue Bleiweiss

Sue Bleiweiss’s method for dyeing fabric produces a fabric with an unevenly colored surface — not only does it have a unique look, but it’s also super easy. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create both solid and tone-on-tone…

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Overlapping Squares Block Tutorial

This tutorial for a very basic block incorporates an easy to tackle improv piecing technique. Use any three colors, plus your background color to create this look of overlapping squares. Finished block: 15.5″ square Fabric requirements:…

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Improvisational Piecing from 100 Days of Modern Quilting

Welcome to the forth week of 100 Days of Modern Quilting – the Week of Improv! Improvisational piecing (sometimes called free piecing or liberated piecing and shorten to “improv”) is just what it sounds like: sewing together fabric without always…

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Generative Design in Quilting: An Introduction

By: Mary Thomas

generative.png   Generative design is a fascinating cross between art and science, and we are starting to see applications of it in quilting. This webinar will introduce the concept of generative design and how it can be used to…

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Block Based Quilts from 100 Days of Modern Quilting

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100 Dagen – Week van de Vormen – Introductie door Latifah Saafir

By: The MQG

Vertaling voor Marina Brito de Campos voor Quiltersgilde MQG, origineel hier. In deze serie onderzoeken we het toepassen van vormen in quilts, vooral in moderne quilts. Aangezien we slechts 7 quilts kunnen tonen, concentreren we ons op de…

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Colored Filled Quilts Tutorial

Alexis’s quilt, Flight is the is the featured quilt for the Week of Color Tutorial Round-Up. We’re sharing tutorials from generous quilters around the web that will help you make your own color-filled quilts. Flight by Alexis Deise Alexis’s thoughts…

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Improv Pineapple Log Cabin Blocks

The log cabin block is ripe for modern reinterpretation and modern quilters have seized that opportunity.  The traditional pineapple log cabin is up for a modern redo as well.  The pineapple log cabin block is typically paper pieced, but this…

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Defrag, November 2017

By: Mary Thomas

  defrag_full_social.png “Generative design is a fascinating cross between art and science, and we are starting to see applications of it in quilting. This quilt was created using generative design through a program called Processing. Each of the five…

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Quilt Like an Artist

By: Amy Friend

Quilts are generally classified as material culture, objects made by people to suit their physical needs, rather than fine art, which is defined as creative art whose products are to be appreciated primarily for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.

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